Book tower - this is extraordinary. #booktopia (via Tree Hugger)

Ford's Theatre Center for Education and Leadership /Public Domain The Centre for Education and Leadership recently opened across the street from Ford's Theatre, where Abraham Lincoln was shot, in Washington. It explores " the lasting effect Abraham Lincoln’s presidency—and its untimely end—have had on our country." In the middle is a winding staircase and a 34 foot high " tower of books about Lincoln, symbolizing that the last word about this great man will never be written." Ford's Theatre Center for Education and Leadership /Public Domain It is a bit of a throwback to an age when people bought books by the yard and installed them as decoration, or hired someone to curate a library to make the owner look sophisticated. Here they are gluing together a tower of books, about one person, that apparently nobody wants to read anymore. So they get glued into an architectural dec...